Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case fo…
The bill amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require every federal contractor and every subcontractor at any tier to elect to participate in the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program and to comply with its terms and conditions.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights risks and error-driven job loss
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly enacts a substantive change by mandating E-Verify participation for federal contractors and subcontractors, but it provides only a terse statutory insertion without operational detail, implementation timing, fiscal analysis, exceptions, or enforcement and oversight mechanisms.
The bill amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require every federal contractor and every subcontractor at any tier to elect to participate in the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program and to comply with its terms and conditions.
Narrow and administratively simple but politically contested; implementation costs and lack of compromise features reduce legislative traction.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly enacts a substantive change by mandating E-Verify participation for federal contractors and subcontractors, but it provides only a terse statutory insertion without operational detail, implementation timing, fiscal analysis, exceptions, or enforcement and oversight mechanisms.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights risks and error-driven job loss
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As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on January 8, 2026
Progressives emphasize civil-rights risks and error-driven job loss
Skeptical and likely opposed overall.
Supporters of civil rights and worker protections would worry E-Verify expands risk of discriminatory screening and erroneous work-eligibility denials without new safeguards.
Mixed but cautiously receptive.
Values rule-of-law and uniform procurement rules, while concerned about implementation costs, error-handling, and supply-chain disruption without funding or phased rollout.
Strongly supportive.
Views mandatory E-Verify for all federal contractors as a commonsense enforcement tool to prevent unauthorized workers on taxpayer-funded contracts.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Narrow and administratively simple but politically contested; implementation costs and lack of compromise features reduce legislative traction.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights risks and error-driven job loss
Narrow and administratively simple but politically contested; implementation costs and lack of compromise features reduce legislative tract…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly enacts a substantive change by mandating E-Verify participation for federal contractors and subcontractors, but it provides only a terse statutory insertion w…
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